Adani Group

The Adani Group is a diversified company in India with, according to its website, "interests in Infrastructure, Power, Global Trading, Logistics, Energy, Port & SEZ, Mining, Oil & Gas, Agri Business, FMCG products, Real Estate Development, Bunkering". The firm earned $5.8bn in revenues in 2010.

Adani Enterprises is India’s largest coal importer, and operator of the largest private port in India - Mundra Port. It became one of the first developers of private ports in India when the government first allowed the entry of private businesses in the late eighties.

Adani Power Limited is the power business arm of Adani Group, with head office at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The company is India's 3rd largest private power producer with capacity of 1980MW, and operates the only thermal power plant in india to be certified by the UN under the Clean Development Mechanism. Adani Power wants the plant - located in Mundra - to be 4620 MW, consisting of 4 units of 330 MW and 5 units of 660 MW.

In April 2011, Adani Enterprises agreed to buy Australia's Abbot Point Coal Terminal for A$1.83bn ($1.98bn). The purchase was among a number placed by Indian groups in Australia and elsewhere as the country to secure energy resources to meet rising demand for power to complete infrastructure projects in India.

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